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Article: Multi-scaled secularization or postsecular present? Christianity and migrant workers in Shenzhen, China

TitleMulti-scaled secularization or postsecular present? Christianity and migrant workers in Shenzhen, China
Authors
KeywordsChinese religiosities
migrant workers
modernity
postsecularity
secularization
Shenzhen
Issue Date2018
PublisherSage Publications Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://cgj.sagepub.com
Citation
Cultural Geographies, 2018 How to Cite?
AbstractThis article provides a multi-scaled, grounded understanding of how secularization and re-sacralization occur simultaneously in a context of rapid modernization. Recent geographical scholarships in the geography of religion have exhibited deficient reflection over the geo-historical contingencies and complexities of secularization and secularity. This article seeks to re-conceptualize secularization as a multi-scaled, grounded and self-reflective process through an empirical research of the hybrid, contradictory processes of secularization and postsecular religious revival in a ‘gospel village’ in Shenzhen, China. In this rapidly urbanizing village, Christian belief inherited from Western missionary work has gradually lost its hold amidst modernization and urbanization. However, the inflow of rural migrant workers has re-invigorated the church. Christianity has created possibilities for postsecular ethics and resistances, enabling migrant workers to materially, symbolically and emotionally settle in a new socio-economic environment. Also, new situated religiosities arise as theological interpretations are used to negotiate and even legitimize social inequalities and alienation. This article therefore argues that the postsecular turn in human geography needs to consider how the postsecular articulates, and co-evolves with, secular conditions of being in the world. It highlights the hybrid and contested nature of the secularization process, which gives rise not only to disengaged belief and immanent consciousness but also to new aspirations for, and formations of, religiosities.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/259634
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2023 Impact Factor: 1.6
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.751
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dc.contributor.authorGao, Q-
dc.contributor.authorQian, J-
dc.contributor.authorYuan, Z-
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-03T04:11:13Z-
dc.date.available2018-09-03T04:11:13Z-
dc.date.issued2018-
dc.identifier.citationCultural Geographies, 2018-
dc.identifier.issn1474-4740-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/259634-
dc.description.abstractThis article provides a multi-scaled, grounded understanding of how secularization and re-sacralization occur simultaneously in a context of rapid modernization. Recent geographical scholarships in the geography of religion have exhibited deficient reflection over the geo-historical contingencies and complexities of secularization and secularity. This article seeks to re-conceptualize secularization as a multi-scaled, grounded and self-reflective process through an empirical research of the hybrid, contradictory processes of secularization and postsecular religious revival in a ‘gospel village’ in Shenzhen, China. In this rapidly urbanizing village, Christian belief inherited from Western missionary work has gradually lost its hold amidst modernization and urbanization. However, the inflow of rural migrant workers has re-invigorated the church. Christianity has created possibilities for postsecular ethics and resistances, enabling migrant workers to materially, symbolically and emotionally settle in a new socio-economic environment. Also, new situated religiosities arise as theological interpretations are used to negotiate and even legitimize social inequalities and alienation. This article therefore argues that the postsecular turn in human geography needs to consider how the postsecular articulates, and co-evolves with, secular conditions of being in the world. It highlights the hybrid and contested nature of the secularization process, which gives rise not only to disengaged belief and immanent consciousness but also to new aspirations for, and formations of, religiosities.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://cgj.sagepub.com-
dc.relation.ispartofCultural Geographies-
dc.rightsCultural Geographies. Copyright © Sage Publications Ltd.-
dc.subjectChinese religiosities-
dc.subjectmigrant workers-
dc.subjectmodernity-
dc.subjectpostsecularity-
dc.subjectsecularization-
dc.subjectShenzhen-
dc.titleMulti-scaled secularization or postsecular present? Christianity and migrant workers in Shenzhen, China-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailQian, J: jxqian@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityQian, J=rp02246-
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1474474018762814-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-85044027635-
dc.identifier.hkuros289767-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000447183400003-
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom-
dc.identifier.issnl1474-4740-

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